cams_WROlden_b011_f010_003_004

the only articles that are safe and seen to
pay a proffit are butter lard & pork the two
formers in small Kegs in ? with brine & the
pork in 1/2 Bbls this are almost the only articles
that have paid any proffit to the skipper butter
has not been with less than $1.00 laard 60 at
wholesale and there is no probability of their
falling below that of any such articles are consigned
to me I will sell them for the fall market price
and take care that the profits are not eaten
up by useless expenses as is too often the case with
our large horses shippers have been swindled awfully
by merchants in this place.

But a truce to business all my letters have come safely
to hand your first are come to me in the mines
the other I got here I was glad to see that the
Elnidlie farn has been successfully managed
by Benny it must relieve murray from great anxiety
the cholera as before touchedrightly in the neibour
hood of old Flushing God Bless the old place
how the sight of it had all it contained would delight
my eyes your little buffers are learing about the
house making all racket that they conveniently
can finally bringing up when tired by the side
of their dear Aunt Acke who makes as great petes
of them as she did of ourselves God Bless her
she was a mother to me Give me my love & the
same to dear Ruan tell her to remember me to will she she
writes next Tell Murray not to think of coming
here without money Kiss the infants for me
the young elephant among the nest

Your Brother

Wm R Olden